Improvement in washing-machines



J; H. KRUSE.

Washing-Machines.

N0, 137,218, Patented March 25,1873.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JULIUS H. KRUSE, OF NEW MELLE, MISSOURI.

IMPROVEMENT IN WASHING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 137,218, dated March 25, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JULIUs H. KRUSE, of New Melle, in the county of St. Charles and State of Missouri, have invented a certain Improvement in WVashing-Machines, of which the iollowing is a specification:

My washing-machine belongs to that class in which the clothing to be washed is placed in a cylindrical cage that is made to rotate in a vessel containing water; and my invention consists in the manner of construction of the ribs of the said cylinder, andin the general construction of the said machine, as hereinafter described.

Figure 1 is an axial longitudinal section, one'half of the machine being shown in perspective. Fig. 2 shows one-half a transverse section of the box and cylinder, and the other half a similar section of the box, showing an end view of one-half of the cylinder.

' A is the box, that may be made of wood or metal, and which contains the suds. a is the lid. The box has two open-topped journalbearings, B B, in which rest the gudgeonsO O of the open cylinder, within which the clothes are placed. The gudgeon G has an angular axial mortise to receive the similarly-shaped end of the winch D, whose end is inserted through the end of the box, after the cylinder is dropped in its bearings. The ends E of the cylinder may be made of light material, such as tin, galvanized iron, or wood, and are strengthened by a crucial frame, 0, to which the gudgeons are attached. The ends E are connected together by open ribs F F, having a trough form, and whose open sides are inclined alternately in opposite directions, so that in whichever direction the cylinder is rotated the water will be raised and poured out upon the clothes. If the open sides of the ribs were toward the axis they would raise the water to a certain height, but they would not carry the water, any of it, much above the ele vation of the axis, and none of the water would be carried so far up as to drop vertically upon the clothes. If the mouths of the ribs were tangential to the cylinder they would not fill when immersed, which would be only at the lowest position, (as the box contains only sufficient Water to cover the ribs when in this po sition.) If the mouths of the ribs were all inclined in one direction the cylinder would operate properly when turned in one direction only, and in this case the clothes become turned into a wad, so that it would be necessary to reverse the rotation to open out the wad, and in this case the water would not be raised in the ribs. With the ribs arranged as described in my improvement, viz.., in opposite directions between a radial and tangential direction, the cylinder can be rotated in either direction, and the water will be carried up and dropped upon the clothes. I have found that the operation is most effective when the clothes are not covered with the water, but roll around upon the ribs and rest with some weight thereupon, and are freely doused with water from the rib-troughs. G is the door by which access is had to the interior of the cylinder. This door is hinged at g, and its ends H are perforated at h to receive spring-bolts I, which may be simultaneously retracted by the sliding rods J.

I claim as my invention- The combination andarrangemenin the rotary cylinder of a washing-machine, of the open ribs F F, having mouths presented alternately in diiferent directions, the door G, and springbolts I, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

JULIUS H. KRUSE. Witnesses:

THEODORE BORBERG, SAML. CLIFF. 

